Twitter has reportedly locked the account of the HuffPost’s Luke O’Brien for 48 hours over a tweet where he told someone angry at his Amy Mek piece to “go DDT yourself.”
Twitter suspended a HuffPo reporter this weekend who was the target of a massive brigade of white supremacist trolls. https://t.co/2IEb5qY29f
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 3, 2018
Apparently DDT, which is most known as a toxic insecticide, is also a wrestling move and O’Brien was allegedly making a wrestling joke:
Twitter just locked @lukeobrien out of his account for 48 hours pending review for making a wrestling joke. Dude has been flooded with death threats on this site. What a joke
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) June 3, 2018
.@Twitter lets actual real life David Duke rant about "Jewish supremacy" on here and a reporter makes a DDT joke while getting bombarded with death threats and… wow hold the phone guys better call in the experts for review… this could be serious, Luke could DDT someone
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) June 3, 2018
But according to a screenshot posted on BernardMedia.com, Twitter thinks O’Brien was promoting self-harm or suicide:
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The “go DDT yourself” tweet is still live on O’Brien’s timeline:
Nobody went after his job, you insufferable stuffed shirt. I called WWE to give them a chance to respond to info from a source who told me WWE knew about AmyMek. That's EXACTLY how ethical journalism works. They fired him. I was shocked. Take it up with them, then go DDT yourself
— Luke O'Brien (@lukeobrien) June 1, 2018
Twitter, you have a problem:
@TwitterSupport Are you serious right now? https://t.co/ZmDAQQnpUk
— Nick Baumann (@NickBaumann) June 3, 2018
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